The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-01
TENNESSEE.


Jackson will soon have a spoke factory.
Pinkeye is restoring the cattle in Obion
county.
Athens will take 500, 600 stock in the Tellico
railroad.
John tombstone, OF Wales station, Giles
county, died last week in his Goth year.
Cotton seed brings $11 pert ton in Dyersburg.
The oil mill is now in operation.
There are goo agricultural wheels in tho
state, with an aggregate membership Of 3d.
coo.
J. A. Agee, Of Crockett county, is 81 years
old. lie has 102 grandchildren and As great
grandchildren.
Randall Hawks, who died in Gibson county
recently, lacked but sixteen days OF being 104
years old.
A hotel, to cost $4,000 and with accommo-
dations for 600 guests, will be erected on Look
out mountain.
Quails are scarce around Milan, but scaly-
bark hickorynuts abound. The hunters, there
fore, carry double-barreled sacks.
General Bragg's headquarters in the battle
OF Mission Ridge, was sold October 18th. 1t
consists of about twelve and q half acres and
the purchase price was $21, 1856.
The inhabitants of Paris are much excited
over the discovery of particles of gold in dirt
thrown up from the shaft of an artesian well,
which is now being bored in the town.
The Cumberland Presbyterians now have in
Tennessee 2 ,546 churches and membership of
nearly 10000 The publication house in
Nashville is credited with a clear profit of S.
109 for the past year.
There lives in Houston a colored man named
Dick Milan, who is 104 or 105 years old. He is
still hale and hearty and drives an OK team
and does many things that much younger men
are unable to do.
Mrs. Judith Beck, of Dickson county, is
ninety-one years old. She has elevenchildren
forty-two grand children, ninety-nine great
grand children and one great great grand
child. She can call each one by name on sight,
and remembers the ages Of them all.
A rural paper, in recording the arrest of jim
Reed for dealing in liquor without license, re-
marks: "Those who know jim cannot be-
leye that no is guilty. They say that if he
ever gets hold of any liquor he would never
sell it or give it away. lie would drink it."
This paragraph from the Clifton Times
needs explanation "The sad spectacle of a
young wife in tears, nursing helpless infant
OF only few months, was noticeable in Cliff
ton Saturday. Her husband was lured from
her side by drink and became intoxicated.
This is the fair girl to whom, a few months
since, he plighted his troth and consummated
his vows in wedlock, promising to protect,
support, ETC."
a remarkable marriage sypsrrt5t1 ind 3rroloa.
recently. David Byrn was united in marriage
for the second time with Miss Emma CorleW,
OF Humphreys county, from whom he had
been divorced ten years. About seventeen
years ago Mr., Byrn and Miss Corlew were
married (she at the time being only 10 years of
age and he 49,, and lived together seven years,
during which time the union was blessed with
three children. Trouble sprang up between
them and they were divorced. They were
separated Gin bed and board'' ten years, and
never met until two months ago. Mr.. Byrn
went to see her, and they have since cores
pended regularly, which resulted in marriage.